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Law of the Sea
Corine Wood Donnelly
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Law of the Sea Introduction The law of the sea is a living component of international public law and domestic law. The historical foundations o...
Laws of War
Calin Trenkov-Wermuth
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Laws of War Introduction The laws of war are a set of rules that aim to regulate the acceptable reasons for going to war (jus ad bellum), the con...
Leadership in International Affairs
Joseph Cerami
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Leadership in International Affairs Introduction The literature on leadership in international affairs is interdisciplinary and, of course, exten...
League of Nations
Christopher Seely
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
League of Nations Introduction The League of Nations was designed and authorized during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in the aftermath of...
Liberalism
Jonathan Cristol
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Liberalism Introduction Liberal international relations (IR) theory is related to, but distinct from, the utopianism of the interwar period. The ...
Marxism
Gareth Dale
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Marxism Introduction Although Marxism has had a good deal to say about historically evolving structures that transcend national borders, the rela...
Military Science
Joseph Cerami, John David Young
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Military Science Introduction Military science is a term that generally dates back to the Industrial Revolution, when many disciplines sought to ...
Minority Rights
Hurst Hannum
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Minority Rights Introduction Many disciplines have analyzed the relationship between minorities and majorities and within minority communities...
Multilateralism (1992–), Return to
James P. Muldoon
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Return to Multilateralism (1992–) Introduction Since the end of the Cold War, scholars and practitioners of international relations (IR) have ...
National Security Act of 1947, The
Douglas Stuart
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
The National Security Act of 1947 Introduction The 1947 National Security Act (NSA) is one of the most important pieces of legislation in mode...
NATO
Carl Cavanagh Hodge
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
NATO Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance of North American and European democratic states founded b...
Peace of Utrecht
Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Peace of Utrecht Introduction The agreements that concluded the War of the Spanish Succession, often collectively referred to as the Peace of ...
Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict
Ben Boulton, John Heathershaw
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Postconflict Peace Building Introduction In the contemporary post-9/11 era, in which the implications of the terms security and threat have be...
Peacekeeping
Erik K. Rundquist
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Peacekeeping Introduction Although the term “peacekeeping” is not defined in the original 1945 United Nations (UN) Charter, the act of using civi...
Power Transition Theory
Ronald L. Tammen, Jacek Kugler, Doug Lemke
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Power Transition Theory Introduction Power transition theory is a structural and dynamic approach to world politics. Although it is sometimes ...
Preventive War and Preemption
Scott A. Silverstone
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Preventive War and Preemption Introduction Preventive war is a persistent theme in the history of international politics and in theoretical expla...
Proliferation
Carol Turner
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Proliferation Introduction Proliferation describes growth by the rapid multiplication of parts. In science this is the process by which an orga...
Realism
Jonathan Cristol
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Realism Introduction There are many different types of realist theory. “Classical realism” was developed in the 1940s in response to the utop...
Reconciliation
Kora Andrieu
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Reconciliation Introduction “Reconciliation = closure + healing” wrote Johan Galtung. If reconciliation could indeed be reduced to an equation...
Russian Revolutions and Civil War, 1917-1921
Michael Kort
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Russian Revolutions and Civil War, 1917–1921 Introduction The Russian Revolution has not permitted Western historians the comfort of neutralit...
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